Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-23
CITY AND SUBURBS.

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 The present Court of Common Council will hold it's last meeting Tuesday.
 George Minor of the firm of Minor & Bradley is very low to-day and 1t IS thought that he will not recover.
 F. J. Kingsbury was in Hartford yester- day, attending to his duties as a member of the East Hartford Bridge commissioners. The Solderers Union, K. of L. No S667, will give their first annual sociable at the Armory on Friday evening, January 20.
 w. A. Parrot, D. D. w. G. P. of Bridge. port, installed the officers of Hawthorne Lodge, Sons of St. George, last evening.
 There were two plain drunks before the police court this morning. One offender was fined $5 and the other was discharged.
 ''Marble Heart,'' which will be given by Atkinson & Cooks Company at the Opera House this evening, is the company's strongest piece.
 The bids for three months feed for the fire department horses will be opened at the meeting of the Board of Fire Commls- sioners this evening.
 Last nights Ansonia Sentinel says: J. E. Smith of Waterbury was in town We'd nesday in search of 8 valuable English pug
 
 Louis Haase and Abe Holman are doing the decorating and carpenter work i'll Turn Hall. When completed it will be one of the neatest and best arranged halls in the city.
 The representatives from several of the city churches will meet at the Y. M. c. A. parlors at S:45 this evening, to perfect ar rangements for the service at the Opera House Sunday.
 MT and Mrs J. Willis Sanford of this city attended the family gathering at the residence of Dr G. w. Sanford of Tariff vile, Tuesday to celebrate the Doctors eightieth birthday.
 ''The Lancashire Lass" will be given at the Opera House tomorrow afternoon in stead of "East Lynne" The change was made in order that MT Grilley may be seen ill his best characters.
 Nathan Dikeman of this city is a mem- Der of the standing committee of grand officers who have charge of the arrange ments for the annual session of the Grand Lodge at Hartford, January IS.
 The funeral of Charles Blattman, who was found dead in bed yesterday morning, was attended from his late residence, No 89 North Main street at 2:3O p. m. to-day. Death was caused by apoplexy.
 The County Commissioners yesterday revoked the license of Morris Fitzgerald and Maurice Murray of this city. These are the men recently convicted in the Po- lice Court of violating the Sunday law. Flowing to the large number of Naugatuck people who come to this city every even ing to do shopping, the managers of the bus line have been obliged to put on an extra bus on the 9 D. m. trip to Nauga. tuck
 The final drawings of the American Mechanics fair at Bronson Hall last even- ing resulted as follows: Chamber set, Mrs Charles R. Welton; dinner set, George Rudolph; guessing on ring, Charles Nor ton; handkerchief box and lantern; Tillie Stewart, photograph holder.
 The Board of Sewer Commissioners will hold special meeting this evening. The most important matter will be the con sideration of the proposed contract between the City and the Scovill Manufacturing Company in relation to the construction of the intercepting sewer through the com pany's property.
 L. D. Miller of the Mattatuck Drum Corps of this city was defeated in the con- test with L. H. Elmer of the City Corps of Hartford, in that city last night. The contest was for a gold badge valued at $25, a similar amount of money and the state championship. The contest was 8 very close one, and the Mattatucks have no reason to be ashamed of MT Millers work.
 Court Hancock, A. O. F. last evening elected the following officers, C.. R., Jas. Murnane; s. c. R., Thos. Cleary; R. S., Thos. Luddy; F. S., H. w. Kellogg, treas urer, Bart Bossidy; s. w., M. Condon; Jr. Wm. German; physician, B. A. O'Hara, M D.; trustee, Wm. Dillon; druggist, Bart Bossidy; auditing committee, E. B. Hardy, E. F. Mccarthy and T. F. Lunny.
 This morning pair of horses owned by Edward Beeman, of Warren, and driven by his son William, were left unhitched in front of Bauby's fruit store. They ran away, dashing down South Main street. . Turning at Scovill street the animals dashed up against the frame of 8 large plate glass window in R. s. Martins store, but fortunately did not break the glass. The horses were not injured.
 Willie Bryan, Albert Bohen and Edward Dougherty were before Deputy Judge charged with breach of the peace. The boys, it appeared by the evidence, had snowballed 1O-year-old Robert Blair and young Wilson Reed. The boys fled to an out building to avoid the attack and their assailants locked them in and stormed the fortifcation. When the boys appeared at the window to cry for help they sent a volley of snow-balls in that direction and kept the boys in the building until after dark The court continued the case for 30 days.
 A party of engineers and railroad men were coming back from the present end of the Meriden and Waterbury railroad Tuesday night on train, and when near Hough's Mills the engine struck an inn mense boulder which had fallen on the track One of the rods controlling the ex- haust was broken and the engine is now being repaired at Cromwell. The other construction engine had passed over the road safely not five minutes before. Before the road is in active running order section men and track walkers will be employed and all danger from falling boulders will then be done away with.-Meriden Repub- can